107 Quotes by Jack McDevitt

Technological civilizations don’t last long. You’re all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

Superman and Batman got their start, we think, during the twenty-fourth century. Except for a brief period during the Dark Age, they’ve never gone away.

If you’re paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.

Unfortunately,” he said, “we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.

Don’t assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.